1999 IP Networking Open Source 
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 6, 2019
After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. The reason is simple: network effects. Metcalfe’s law states that a network’s power is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network. But when the web 2.0 Even if you wanted to. Natural Monopolies.
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